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Resurrection: Mothlight

Resurrection: Mothlight

dazzling darkness, reanimation, Stan Brakhage, Bataille, mystics, eye/I, Hollis Frampton, Angela of Foligno

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Cinema could already claim [...] a complementary feat: the resurrection of bodies in space from their dismembered trajectories. (Hollis Frampton)

Mothlight, Stan Brakhage, 1963.

It gets too close to the light.

Swept into a pile.

Returns again altered.

Nocturnal, bulb, moth, matter…

Film’s muse is insomnia, Hollis Frampton says.

Life writing itself = autobiogra…

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